CalSTA… [and Caltrans are] committed to improving conditions for transit, biking, and walking, according to its Deputy Secretary for Environmental Policy and Housing, Kate White.

“Thirty percent of all trips in California are less than a mile,” said White, testifying at a legislative hearing yesterday in Sacramento. “We want to make bicycling or walking the default for those short trips.”

For a transportation system to be sustainable and more environmentally friendly, moving around the state has to be about supporting modes other than personal motor vehicles.